Education
2020 - 2025 (Fall): Yale University, Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A. Philosophy
- Dissertation: 'Moral uncertainty and
bargaining' [pdf↗
| email me for a more recent draft]
- Committee: Shelly Kagan (chair); Daniel
Greco; Stephen Darwall; Andreas Mogensen (external, Oxford) [lineage↗]
- Courses Studied: click
here↗
2016 - 2019: Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, B.A. Philosophy,
Politics, and Economics
- Honours class: 1st
- Preliminary examinations: Distinction
- University prizes:
- the top Hicks / Webb Medley Prize for overall performance in
economics by a PPE or H&E student (£400) -- graduated top of my cohort of ~250 students
- the Uehiro Essay Prize in Practical Ethics (undergraduate
category, £300)
- joint-highest 'finals' exam mark in:
- Plato's Republic (in
translation)
- Game Theory
- joint-highest 'prelims' exam mark in economics
- honourable mention in the Q-Step Essay Prize for a
first-year data analysis project in R
- College prizes:
- the Griffith Prize (£150)
- the 2018/19 Jane Day Prize for the highest 1st-class mark in
an Ancient Philosophy 'collection' exam (£30)
- the Gavin Cameron Prize for top performance in the economics
'prelims' exam (£100)
- undergraduate scholarship for 1st-class performance in
'prelims' exams (£700)
- Courses Studied: click
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2009 - 2016: Monmouth Comprehensive School (non-selective state school)
- Prizes:
- Trinity College Cambridge's Philosophy Essay Prize (£600) --
I was the first pupil from a 'comprehensive' school (British
non-selective state school) to win the prize
- highly-commended in the Nicholas Bacon Politics Essay Prize,
run by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (£50)
Standardized Test Scores:
- 2019: GRE, first attempt
- Verbal Reasoning: 170 out of 170, top 1%
- Quantitative Reasoning: 170 out of 170, top 4%
- Analytical Writing: 6.0 out of 6.0, top 1%
- 2015: Thinking Skills Assessment, top 2%